id: 157117 accession number: 1993.248 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.248 updated: 2020-05-12 09:13:51.610000 Grant Park, 1930. Charles Turzak (American, 1899-1986). Linoleum cut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert and Ann Friedman 1993.248 title: Grant Park title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1930 creation date earliest: 1930 creation date latest: 1930 current location: creditline: Gift of Robert and Ann Friedman copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: linoleum cut department: Prints collection: PR - Linocut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Charles Turzak (American, 1899-1986) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00 Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Many American artists depicted the effects of the Great Depression. In the 1930s, art helped identify and criticize injustice, economic inequities, and racial discrimination. Using powerful imagery, artists crusaded on behalf of the poor, the dispossessed, and the exploited. Turzak's stark design generates sympathy for the homeless men who sleep, shielded only by newspapers, in Chicago's Grant Park. To alleviate the devastating effects of the Depression, President Roosevelt began the Work Projects Administration (WPA), a federal employment program. Artists were helped as well by the Work Projects Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), which stimulated printmaking between 1935 and 1942 by providing workshops, instruction, and equipment. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES